The judgments of God -- The book of the Lord.

¹⁾Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people:; let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.

²⁾For the indignation of the LORDLord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies:; he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

³⁾Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasescarcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

⁴⁾And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll:; and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

⁵⁾For my sword shall be bathed in heaven:; behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

⁶⁾The sword of the LORDLord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams:; for the LORDLord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

⁷⁾And the unicornsreem shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

⁸⁾For it is the day of the LORD'sLord's vengeance, and the year of recompencesrecompenses for the controversy of Zion.

⁹⁾And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

¹⁰⁾It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever:forever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for everforever and ever.

¹¹⁾But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it:; and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

¹²⁾They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

¹³⁾And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof:; and it shall be ana habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

¹⁴⁾The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

¹⁵⁾There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow:; there shall the vultures also be gathered, every oneeveryone with her mate.

¹⁶⁾Seek ye out of the book of the LORDLord, and read: the names written therein; no one of these shall fail,; none shall want hertheir mate:; for my mouth it hath commanded, and hismy spiritSpirit it hath gathered them.

¹⁷⁾And heI hathhave cast the lot for them, and hisI hand hathhave divided it unto them by line:; they shall possess it for ever,forever; from generation to generation they shall they dwell therein.